What do you say about an illusive drama like "The Life Before Her Eyes" when you have no idea what's actually happening?
At its simplest, "The Life Before Her Eyes" is about a high school shooting in which the gunman forces two best friends to choose which one of them will die.
'THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES' - Evan Rachel Wood and Eva Amurri are best friends facing terror in 'The Life Before Her Eyes.' ... [full story]

WASHINGTON -- Whether Sen. John McCain voted for President George Bush in the 2000 U.S. presidential election is being debated by a liberal blogger and McCain's office.Blogger Arianna Huffington said she heard the Arizona senator and presumptive GOP presidential nominee say at a Los Angeles event after the 2000 election that he didn't vote for Bush, The New York Times reported.The McCain campaign denied the comment, calling Huffington, a one-time Republican, "a poser" with a ... [full story]

VIENNA -- The Austrian man who allegedly imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered her seven children says, "I am not the beast the media make me to be." "I always knew during the whole 24 years that what I was doing was not right, that I must have been crazy to do such a thing, but still it became a normal occurrence to lead a second life in the cellar of my house," ... [full story]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- A member of the ruling alliance in the Lebanese parliament, worried about the city in the wake of violence in Beirut, Friday asked the army to defend Tripoli.Mesbah al-Ahdab expressed concern about moves "the opposition bloc was likely to make in Tripoli," calling on the army to prevent possible unrest in the city considered a stronghold for a government loyalists, reported KUNA, the Kuwaiti news agency.Three days of fighting between Shiite Hezbollah ... [full story]

VIENNA -- The 73-year-old Austrian who allegedly imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered her seven children could face murder charges, prosecutors say.Josef Fritzl told authorities in an interview that one child who died shortly after birth had no medical attention; Austrian prosecutors said that means the likelihood of a manslaughter charge, but he could be charged with "murder out of negligence."Fritzl was to appear Friday in a closed court hearing in which he ... [full story]

QUEBEC CITY -- Safety concerns have led officials in the Canadian province of Quebec to order the retrieval of a 50-year-old plane wreck containing four bodies from a lake.Nine provincial police divers were ordered to begin the extrication next Monday from Lac Simon, 60 miles north of Ottawa, in order to prevent recreational divers from trying to reach it, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., reported Friday.The amphibious Republic RC-3 SeaBee went missing on Nov. 21, 1957, ... [full story]

REDMOND, Ore. – Two drivers were sent to the hospital with minor injuries Friday morning when an attempt to avoid a dead deer in the center of Highway 97 led to a two-vehicle crash with one vehicle going airborne before rolling and sliding off the highway, and the other plummeting over an embankment, police reported.
About 7 a.m. on May 9, officers responded to the report of a rollover vehicle collision on Highway 97 near ... [full story]

WASHINGTON -- The cash-strapped campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton has forced curtailments of political events and advertising as the primary season winds down, aides say.Advisers said Clinton would infuse her Democratic presidential campaign with more of her own money on top of the more than $11 million she already loaned the it, The New York Times said. Hassan Nemazee, a Clinton national finance chairman, said the campaign raised more than $1 million after her primary ... [full story]

ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland -- Iceberg activity off northeastern Canada is running almost double compared to all of last year's total, Canadian and U.S. officials say.The U.S. Coast Guard said there are about 600 icebergs moving off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, compared with two years ago when there almost none, the Globe and Mail reported Friday.The floes are a major concern to shipping interests and oil rigs in the North Atlantic Ocean, and are monitored ... [full story]